Ed Wightman, Finger Lakes Boating Museum vice president, stands next to one of the boats housed in a Taylor Wine warehouse in Urbana.

Written by

Mary Perham
| Correspondent

After a four-year pending partnership with the City of Geneva fell through recently, the museum's board of directors was given until the end of March to vacate their temporary quarters or pay $1,500 a month in rent.

Easter weekend found the board and volunteers forming a dryland flotilla of flatbed trucks, trailers and cars with hitches, ferrying 75 of the museum's collection of historical boats from Geneva to a Taylor Wine warehouse in Hammondsport owned by Bud Meade. ...